Print Email Facebook Twitter Naming Amplified Tests Based on Improved Coverage Title Naming Amplified Tests Based on Improved Coverage Author Nijkamp, N. (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) Brandt, C.E. (TU Delft Software Engineering) Zaidman, A.E. (TU Delft Software Engineering) Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Date 2021 Abstract Test amplification generates new test cases that improve the coverage of an existing test suite. To convince developers to integrate these new test cases into their test suite, it is crucial to convey the behavior and the improvement in coverage that the amplified test case provides. In this paper, we present NATIC, an approach to generate names for amplified test cases based on the methods they additionally cover, compared to the existing test suite. In a survey among 16 participants with a background in Computer Science, we show that the test names generated by NATIC are valued similarly to names written by experts. According to the participants, the names generated by NATIC outperform expert-written names with respect to informing about coverage improvement, but lack in conveying a test's behavior. Finally, we discuss how a restriction to two mentioned methods per name would improve the understandability of the test names generated by NATIC. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5649a614-c973-43b1-ae85-e66a81d0ae1b DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/SCAM52516.2021.00036 Publisher IEEE Computer Society - Conference Publishing Services, Piscataway, NJ Embargo date 2022-07-01 ISBN 978-1-6654-4897-0 Source 2021 IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) Series Proceedings - IEEE 21st International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2021 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2021 N. Nijkamp, C.E. Brandt, A.E. Zaidman Files PDF main.pdf 975.17 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5649a614-c973-43b1-ae85-e66a81d0ae1b/datastream/OBJ/view